KNUCKLE


Meaning of KNUCKLE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

brass knuckles

cracked...knuckles

Dennis rubbed his hands together and cracked his knuckles .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

brass

The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.

Its grip consisted of brass knuckles , was a chain of rings through which Weary slipped his stubby fingers.

white

But the rent strikes brought her out to the world with her small fists clenched in a white-knuckle fury.

He gripped her hand with white knuckles , and could say nothing, to her or to anyone else.

Some pilots stood serenely, studying their cigarette smoke; but then Peacock saw their white knuckles .

■ VERB

crack

Karma Rubbish smokes at the end of the garden, cracking its knuckles to pass the time.

He sighed a lot, stretched his legs, cracked his knuckles .

Dennis put his glass down and cracked his knuckles dramatically.

It felt like he was cracking a knuckle .

Wishart rubbed his hands together, cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger.

Between moves he cracked his knuckles .

Tom was trembling, sitting on the edge of a chair cracking his knuckles .

rap

Kirov felt it with his fingertips and rapped his knuckles against the main body of the sink unit.

Mrs Taylor kept an eye on us, ready to rap our knuckles if we got too greedy.

Ireland has already been rapped over the knuckles for cutting taxes just as its economy was overheating.

They rap their knuckles against cutting boards.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a rap on/over the knuckles

Was it going to be a rap on the knuckles for quality?

rap sb on/over the knuckles

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Beside them both, Cheryl Russell was sucking her bloodied knuckles.

He sighed a lot, stretched his legs, cracked his knuckles.

I clapped my gloves together, surprised when my bare knuckles smacked each other.

Karma Rubbish smokes at the end of the garden, cracking its knuckles to pass the time.

Lee sat reading, folded over the book, chewing a knuckle now.

My consciousness was raised, my knuckles were rapped and I no longer write or think that way.

Susan saw a smear of yellow paint across his knuckles.

The power of the punch is concentrated in a small area of the knuckles.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

down

Mollified, if not entirely convinced, Vincent went back to Mauve and tried hard to knuckle down .

But he kept his anger under control and vowed to knuckle down and fight for a first-team future.

Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users.

No attempts made to knuckle down and smarten up.

Male speaker I think we've got to knuckle down and work hard.

under

Some coaches knuckle under to that.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a rap on/over the knuckles

Was it going to be a rap on the knuckles for quality?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But he kept his anger under control and vowed to knuckle down and fight for a first-team future.

Male speaker I think we've got to knuckle down and work hard.

Mollified, if not entirely convinced, Vincent went back to Mauve and tried hard to knuckle down.

No attempts made to knuckle down and smarten up.

Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users.

Some coaches knuckle under to that.

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